Lab 1 - EE 421L 

Lab description:

In this lab, the student becomes familiar with the Electric CAD tool through a simple tutorial.

Figure 1 is the first screen you see on starting Electric:

Figure 2 is the result of changing the background to white:

Fig. 3 shows how to set up Electric for the "ON semiconductor's C5 process," with three metal

layers and the "Analog" option selected.

The next step is to set the "lambda" constant, which for our case is 300nm. (Fig.4)

The next step is creating a new "Cell," and the following dialog box pops up. (Fig. 5)

We get this screen, ready for components to be placed. (Fig. 6)

Now we place a so-called N-well schematic resistor "node." (Fig. 7)

We then set some properties for this node. (Fig. 8)

After finishing this step, and zooming in a little, we get this image. (Fig. 9)

Backup

During the creation of these web-based lab reports, it is important to backup your work.
One thing that I did is emailing myself the .jpg files before I started on the html editing,
so that even if disaster struck later, I would still have the first step done. (Fig. 10)
 

 
 
The same procedure can be followed for the .htm files.
Fig. 11 shows the email securely stored (I assume) on the Google servers.
 

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